• [[death and suffering]]

• [[in memoriam]]

2026-04-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
    • "environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader “movement of movements” seeking a Great Transition."
    • Google Scholar alert
  • We just released the industry’s first ever nature report.
    • "Businesses need to start seeing [[biodiversity loss]] as a core business risk. We need to think beyond just lowering emissions"
      • Via: [[Fairphone]] newsletter

• [[Stapelberg]] told me about [[MQTT]], classic pubsub that works (tm)! Nice.
• [[Jonas]] told me about [[Lissajous curves]]!
• [[EC 2026]]

2026-04-06

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity]]
    • Sound likes… [[Agora]]!

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[The value of an idea is determined by its relationship to others]]
  • [[Don’t spend too much time on a main note]]

• I had a great long weekend so far with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and friends!
• Met [[June]], [[MS]] and other friends on Friday.
• We biked a lot with [[KM]] and it was great :)
• Then tonight I came over to [[ZW]] ~ [[ZWZ]] with [[MS]]
• [[digital garden]]
• [[tailscale]]

2026-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
    • "a preliminary framework for people wanting to experiment with a [[collaborative zettelkasten]]"
    • [[Bob Doto]]‘s website

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The Difference Between Hub Notes and Structure Notes Explained]]

• I’m going to experiment with refactoring some of my overstuffed concept notes.

  • Into smaller main notes, hub notes, and structure notes.
  • I think I’ll start with [[ecosocialism]] and [[digital ecosocialism]].
  • [[Refactoring some of the notes in my garden]].

2026-04-03

• [[Read]]:
  • [[Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes]]
    • On crafting [[main note]]s in [[zettelkasten]].
    • The description of different [[types of information]] might be helpful.
    • As a way of avoiding calling every main note a ‘claim’ - which is kind of what I’ve been doing, insofar as I’ve been doing zettelkasten.

2026-04-02

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Germany Stack: Only Free Software Enables Digital Sovereignty
    • "The “[[Germany Stack]]” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as [[Free Software]], since only the four freedoms enable [[digital sovereignty]]."
  • Crafting the Information You Capture in Main Notes
    • "we’ll zoom in on the [[main note]] itself: a brief look at its components, followed by thoughts on how to craft the primary unit of information it contains, and how to reinforce it with additional information"

• I am doing a bit of a rejig to my site.

  • I’m deprecating the WordPress side of things and moving those bits to Emacs/org.
  • WordPress has served me very well for the ‘stream’ side of my online presence in the past, but I don’t have the time or need to use WordPress right now.
  • So I’ve set https://doubleloop.net to currently redirect straight to https://commonplace.doubleloop.net.
  • Commonplace I’ve always referred to as my digital garden, but it also contains elements of the stream, and long-form articles, within it.
  • I’ll make those a bit more easily discoverable.

2026-03-30

• [[Read]]:

  • [[The state of Right to Repair in 2026 (and a recap of our work last year)]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Beyond Capitalism]]

2026-03-29

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Is capitalism dead?]]:
    • About [[the end of capitalism]].
    • Unfortunately, it’s all about the end of capitalism in the bad sense - of it being replaced with something worse.
    • Surveys [[McKenzie Wark]] and [[Capital is Dead]], Varoufakis and [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]], Mason and [[Post-capitalism]].
    • Also [[Wolfgang Streeck]] and [[Richard Westra]] and [[Karen Hao]] who I had not come across before.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • The rise of end times fascism
    • "The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them"
    • [[Is capitalism dead?]]

• Wrote:

  • Going to start writing latest [[Emacs Carnival]] post today.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Mistakes and Misconceptions]]

• Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.

  • Someone recommending it over [[Wallabag]].

2026-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
    • "a tool to help organizations figure out where they stand when it comes to [[digital sovereignty]]."
    • It’s Foss newsletter
  • Is capitalism dead?
    • "it is now easier to imagine [[the end of capitalism]] than the end of the world"
  • Digital Colonialism, Ecological Crisis and the Limits of Techno-Primitivism
    • "examines the intertwined dynamics of [[ecological crisis]], [[digitalisation]], and [[techno-primitivism]] through a genealogical and syncretic lens."
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-27

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • How the left can win back the internet – and rise again
    • "how infighting has ripped [[the left]] apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide"
    • The Guardian newsletter
  • What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
    • "Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort"
  • modal.cx
    • "Modal is a new independent collective Building [[emancipatory software]] for an uncertain world"
• I wonder whether I should use for example Betula for my bookmarks.
  • Maybe, maybe not. I’ll think about what the benefits might be.
  • But I’m fine with them living messily in my garden for now.

• [[Straight as an arrow]] -> [[Straight like an arrow]]

2026-03-25

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
    • "The [[Community wealth building]] agenda in Scotland might be growing, but incoming legislation will solidify gains and ensure that activity is not done in isolation"
    • web search
  • The Library of Things Toolkit (2.0)
    • "This expanded guide will help you plan, start, and grow a [[Library of Things]] in your community."
    • [[Shareable]] newsletter

• [[Systemic change is a combination of reformist, alternative-building and revolutionary logics]].

• I met [[Aaron]], [[Jonas]].
• I met [[Marlon]] for the first time.
• I met [[Tim]] on the rooftop!

2026-03-21

• [[Listened]]: [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]
  • The book sounds like a great contribution - very hands on ideas and practice for transition from people who fully understand the bigger picture.
  • Plenty of [[commoning]] talk and I’m happy that all the to see the [[commons-public partnerships]] stuff from [[Free, Fair and Alive]] and [[DisCO]]s here in another light.

2026-03-20

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Popular Protagonism in Venezuela’s Transition to Socialism: A Conversation with Michael Liebowitz
    • "[[socialism]] involves people transforming themselves"
    • search for [[popular protagonism]]

2026-03-19

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[ACFM Microdose: The Green Party]]

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[Future Histories International: Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance]]

• [[Work]] is… tough but interesting/exciting/interesting?
  • This applies to the node as well, in particular its [[Agora context]].
  • Which reminds me I wanted to rename [[Full search]] -> [[Agora search]] in the UI :)
    • And led me to do some work on demo mode plus onboardig experience with Gemini :)

• We went to the [[Velobörse]] with [[KM]] and we got a nice bike for a good price! It was great.
  • It was quite cold and rainy and we felt so-so physically at several times in the day but it’s been a beautiful weekend so far!
  • We reunited with [[Lady Burup]] around 2PM.
• I did some work for G, sending out a document for review, and it felt great.

2026-03-14

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Gen Z 212 and Youth Protests in Morocco: From the Digital Sphere to the Street
    • "Here the relationship between the Moroccan experience and the concept of “[[the electronic left]] and electronic struggle” is manifest, where a tangible social dimension meets a technological-organizational one to produce a new form of political action"

2026-03-13

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
    • "analyzes the [[climate politics]] of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing [[eco-socialist]] movements under capitalism"
    • Google Scholar alerts

• [[Are the Green Party of England and Wales ecosocialist?]]

• Get back to Neil more on the order of pushes!
• Meet [[VK]] and [[SZ]] after work :)

2026-03-11

• [[Listened]]:
  • [[ACFM Trip 55: Parties]]

2026-03-10

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The Rise of the Techno-Tyrants | Transnational Institute
    • "[[Silicon Valley]] has thrown much of its support behind [[Trump]] for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions"
    • [[Transnational Institute]] newsletter
  • The Digital Tech Broligarchy’s Interest in Left-Wing Science Fiction: A Critical Reading of the Culture of Techno-Libertarianism
    • "A slew of recent articles has asked what the connection might be between right-wing libertarian [[Silicon Valley]] billionaires and left-wing [[science fiction]]"
    • [[tripleC]] mailing list

2026-03-09

• I am finding the performance of [[Thunderbird]] to be terrible.
  • Connecting it to Zoho Mail via IMAP.
  • I’m just going through my inbox and deleting emails and it regularly takes a CPU to 100%.
  • Might try Betterbird… but will just stick with the webmail for this for now. Something clearly not right when a webapp is performing better than a desktop app.

• Great Saturday!
• We had a great morning and went to the gym with [[KM]] and then I took a nap with [[Lady Burup]] and met [[VK]], then…
• I met [[Claudia]] and [[Andreas]] at [[KM]]‘s home for dinner and then we went to their flat and to [[ZW]], it was great.
• I also found a note of interest in [[ZW]], and when I turned it around I found:
  • [[Urs + Miranda]]
  • [[Gaudi Labs]]
• [[Agora demo]] :)

2026-03-08

• In the absence of time to do much in the way of [[knowledge commoning]] at present, I figure the least I can do is more consistently share my bookmarks.

  • A small contribution, but still better than them sitting privately locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey _ What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
    • "In The Story of Capital, the world’s foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism"
    • [[Christian Fuchs]]

2026-03-07

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Mapping the Red-Green Future: A Theoretical Analysis of the Works of James O’Connor, Joel Kovel, and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
    • "a critically important foundation for advancing interdisciplinary research that integrates Marxism (red) and ecology (green)"
    • Google Scholar Alerts
  • Exporting org-roam notes to Hugo and Quartz
    • "how we can export our existing org-roam notes to Markdown, which can then be served by a static-site generator like Hugo or Quartz"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Migrating website to orgmode
    • "port the website over to orgmode, simplify the css, and bring it over to a new host"
    • [[Emacs News]]
  • Ollama Buddy - Web Search Integration
    • "fetching current information from the web and injecting it into your conversation context"
    • [[Emacs News]]

2026-03-06

• Listened:
  • [[ACFM Trip 57: Ecology]]

• "[[I’m just a curious guy]]…"

2026-03-04

• [[Listened]]:

  • [[This Machine Kills: 437. Do Socialists Dream of Electric Institutions, Part 1 (ft. Aaron Benanav)]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Beyond Capitalism
    • "If there is ever to be a left break beyond the current political impasse—the liberal-capitalist establishment locked in a wrestler’s embrace with the ultra-capitalist right—it will ultimately require the elaboration of an economic system [[beyond capitalism]] itself."
    • [[This Machine Kills]]

2026-03-03

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Ripple Effect
    • "Communicational expertise, practical tools, honest analysis of earth system collapse and technological chaos to help social movements win the day"

2026-03-01

• Managed to submit a post for the February carnival: [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]
  • Quite a rush, but I learned a lot in the process.

• Of any assertion, it can be asked: is it
  • [[True to self]]?
    • Which self?

2026-02-28

• Now that I’ve got Emacs back up and running on my phone, I can try and get an entry in for the February Emacs Carnival.
  • [[Emacs Carnival: Completion]]

2026-02-27

• I had to get a new phone, as my Pixel 5a spontaneously bricked itself.

  • I got a [[Fairphone 6]].
  • I usually get second hand or refurbished phones, but here’s [[My rationale for getting a Fairphone 6]].

• Going through the process of getting things set up on a new phone.

  • My notes in my digital garden are massively helpful for this. Well done past self!
  • They’re a bit scattered though - I’ll try and update them into one page about it..
    • [[Setting up a new phone]].

• Trying out Vulpea.

The things you don't write are left unwritten
The things you don't say, unsaid
The things you don't show, unseen

For how long, maybe?
Until when?

• We had such a beautiful day with [[KM]]! And [[Lady Burup]].
• We went to the gym together for the first time in the morning, and then did a great walk through Zürich hopping from coffee place to coffee place and enjoying the [[sunshine]].
• Yesterday: [[2026-02-23]]

Algún día, algún día
Algún día haremos la revolución
Pero si no ahora, cuándo?

The things you don't say are left unsaid
The things you don't write unwritten
Until one day, maybe?

Las cosas que vimos:
Sucederán, sucederán…

Lo que dijimos:
Sucederá, sucederá…

Las jaras!
Las jaras, qué jaras?

Las de Avalokiteshvara
Las de Maitreya
Y Tara...

Tare tuttare ture
Tuttare tuttare ture
Soha

2026-02-23

• [[The Build & Fight Formula Part 6: Social Digital Infrastructure]]

2026-02-22

• [[Ecosocialism 2024: How capitalism ruined the internet]]
  • [[Lizzie O’Shea]] discusses [[historical materialism applied to technology]].

2026-02-14

• Listened to [[Ian Angus: Why We Need An EcoSocialist Revolution - Socialism 2013]]

• [[stony caramel]]

• Noding this in my new laptop [[avalokiteshvara]] while visiting [[ZWZ]] :)
  • Last visit before going on a trip, likely starting on Tuesday night.
• Earlier this weekend I spent time with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and it was wonderful, even though I woke up with a headache (hopefully the last in this cluster) on Saturday morning.

• 7 ~ [[Avalokiteshvara]] in the [[Flancia]] pattern language :)
• Had a great day with [[KM]]! Despite sleeping little and waking up with a strong headache again — unsure at this point if it’s viral or what is called a [[cluster headache]].
• [[Züriberg]]
• [[Intuit]]
• [[Fondue]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Oh fuck]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Work]] was interesting despite being still half sick.
• [[Social.coop]] was great, we finally shipped [[1k characters limit]] after long! \o/
• [[Collected Poetry]] after long!

• Back noding!
  • I’m writing this in [[Bitwäscherei]]. The [[Agora]] is being demoed live for the first time! And I’ve met lots of cool people as usual :)
  • I spent Friday and Saturday with [[KM]] and it was great despite our health not being tip top at times :)
  • I feel more than lucky; right now, [[blessed]].
• Work has been fine actually; I was oncall this week and was sick two days but I pushed through and felt quite at ease despite sleeping too little.
• [[Las Jaras]] was special as expected!
  • I threw [[7]] * [[2^9]] over five dice, notable.
  • [[2063]] made an appearance
  • I ran [[collect]] after planning to for long and it felt cathartic! The [[chaos stack]] which was a bunch of literal back of the envelopes going back to 2024 was reviewed/distilled into a notebook and thus can be put away (or, as indicated in some of the envelopes as intention, [[burnt]].)
• Came after [[2026-01-31]]
• Saw [[Koch]]! And [[Aaron]] and many others.
• [[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
  • maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • We were not completely healthy, [[KM]] and me currently, but I enjoyed living these days together!
  • I was home until midnight with [[KM]] (who went home in the afternoon) and [[Lady Burup]] and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and I loved it.
  • I ran some [[collect]] I had planned for long (more about this tomorrow…).
  • I updated the [[moodboard]].
  • And coded and enjoyed!

2026-01-31

• Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’ll…]] today.

  • Last day to submit!

• [[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]

• Back to noding!
• Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.

2026-01-17

• Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].

• I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
• Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.

• Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
  • I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)

• Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
• My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
• It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
• I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
  • It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…

• Will try to keep up the streak :)
• Saw [[KM]] after the trip and it was lovely! Unfortunately she’s been sick but now feeling better.
• I did [[Return]] day 1 as starting practice for the year and it was great.

• Back home!
• And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
• [[Napoli]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[Experimentos]]

2026-01-03

• [[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.

  • P2P, host on your own site, etc.
  • I think it relies more on relays though. I don’t think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.

• I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.

  • I think that’s a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.

• Happy new year to all!
• Started the year with friends and loved ones at home; then saw fireworks together from [[Kaferberg]]; then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and greeted cool and interesting people.

• Moved out successfully
  • Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it’s quite cozy
  • Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
• Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
  • Tiling window managers rock!
  • Altho they really don’t play well with some apps like game launchers and such
• Happy new years!
  • Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]

2025-12-31

• I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
  • As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it’ll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
  • But it requires Emacs 30.1.
  • I’m only on Emacs 29.
  • Upgrade ahoy!

• [[Berni]] me hizo recordar que quiero convencer a los PMs de Meet para que agreguen un feature en el tier gratuito.

2025-12-30

• I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
  • Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
  • Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
  • I just tried it, and it’s perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam’s addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven’t changed it).
  • With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
  • I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don’t like filenames being used to store meta information.

• [[free instruments]]
• I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.

• What a great start to the day in [[Bitwäscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
  • Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.

• I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]].

• Met:
  • Some cool people on the rooftop of [[Zentralwäscherei]], including a girl named something like [[Katja]] and her two cool friends.
  • [[Moritz]] after midnight in [[Bitwäscherei]].
  • I also saw [[Marc]] and [[Aaron]] after long!
  • I’m so glad I came back to [[SGMK]] finally; it just kept slipping because of work and commitments, it seems I needed a long weekend to get pressing things done and reboot priorities :)
• Then slept ~6h roughly from 6am to 12am and woke up rested enough :)
• Played [[Minecraft]] with [[KI]] and it was great!
• Then flowed.
• Ran again into [[What is Life?]] by [[Schrödinger]], decided to actually locate a URL where I could read it.
  • Found [[archive]] https://archive.org/details/whatislifephysic0000schr/page/n5/mode/2up
• [[Feynman x 3]]

• Very nice day at home with Burup :)
• Ended up working 8h on projects and making good progress, which felt great! Pretty much as planned.
• Then in the evening I went back to [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] after long and it felt great as well, I hadn’t been back much since April (?) because of travel/work/personal life and my under-prioritizing. I intend to come back more often now!
• [[2025-12-26]]

• Skipped a few? But I’ve been having fun you could say.
• Work is finally calming down as we go into the [[prod freeze]]! Looking forward.
• Feeling quite free, relieved of burdens.
• Worried about some health issues in the family, but staying optimistic and trying to value what we have.

• I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
  • See also: [[trolley science]].
• I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)

• I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
• I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
• New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)
• I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
  • [[Easier signups]].
    • Completed: ‘join with your git repo’ now exists as a form, talks to [[agora server]] and that talks to the (privileged) [[agora bridge]].
  • [[Federation++]]
    • Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I’m wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I’ve caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]

2025-11-21

• Christmas Pudding 10k.
  • I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
  • Playlist
    • Beach House – Myth
    • Proem – She Never Cries
    • Closer Musik – Piraten
    • Vessels – Glass Lake
    • Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon
    • Sieren – Blue Memories
    • The The – This Is the Day
    • Maps – Heya Yaha

• [[testing meet]]

• [[journals]] test
  • Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
  • Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
  • Mystery solved!
• Trying out [[jujutsu]]
  • Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
  • Also has a really cool name
• Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
  • The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
• Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
  • A quote of his taken from [[wikipedia]]¹ has a certain vibe

2025-11-11

• I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

  • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
  • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
  • Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
  • I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
  • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]

• Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

  • Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
  • Either way, but for that to have gone away.

• Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

  • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
  • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
  • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

2025-11-10

• I’m kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
  • (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
  • Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
  • From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
  • This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven’t done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
  • I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
  • Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determined…
  • But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.

2025-11-09

• I’m rekindling my relationship with Getting Things Done at the moment. Listening to Making It All Work.
  • Life is quite full on recently. I find GTD beneficial to getting some sense of control and perspective.
  • At the same time, I find the idea of ‘personal productivity’ kind of problematic. As a goal in itself, at least. It has neoliberal tones.
  • From that perspective, I like the notion of Four Thousand Weeks.
  • Maybe there’s a happy medium.

2025-11-01

• The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
  • I have some good stuff to talk about there.
  • I’ll get started on the post earlier this time…

2025-10-31

• I managed to cobble together a post for the October [[Emacs carnival]]: [[Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers]].

2025-10-30

• I foolishly ran pkg update in [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won’t start.
  • Will a doom sync fix it? Stay tuned…
  • Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!

2025-10-29

• [[Emacs blog carnival: Maintenance]]

• Yesterday I implemented ‘star nodes’ and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
  • I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
  • I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
• Today it’s day 1/2 of my team’s global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
• Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)

• I’m back to noding on this computer; and now I think about it, it’s kind of curious I don’t do it this often given that on workdays this is the computer I spent the most time on, by far!
  • By this I mean [[Guanyin]], one of my laptops, provided by [[Google]].

• [[KM]] :)
• Planning a trip to Italy!
• Also trying to advance today:
  • [[work]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • [[agora]] development questions, like: how exactly to prioritize all the features and bug fixes I have backlogged with the ground level/key refactor between [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]].
• Doing [[tab cleanup]] here in [[tara]] (my personal development computer) after a while, I thought (and posted) about [[gamification]].
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

2025-10-26

• [[The electronic left]]
  • I enjoy this, as a term. Has a pleasingly 90s feel to it.
• Bookmarks
  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism | Critical Switch
    • [[Permacomputing]], [[Anti-capitalism]]

• [[79]]:
  • I was unsure what number I had associated [[Sadhana]] with, but today I saw it in the whiteboard.
  • It was the first prime that seemed "available" on a certain date :) And I think it still is; next up [[83]] is currently yours truly (as I was born on that year), then we only have [[89]], [[91]] and [[97]] left before the hundreds.
  • Before it, I thought [[37]] could be it as I currently associate it with [[Yoga]] which is also a [[spiritual practice]].
• I worked until late and enjoyed it.
• Attended an [[AI summit]] Tue-Thu and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Today I was a bit low energy as I slept only five hours (exceptional occasion) but overall the week was great so far. Actually looking forward to working tomorrow.
• [[KM]]
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

• [[Moloch’s bargain]]

• I’m back!
  • (says the guy who’s back all the time…)
• My [[todo]] list for this ‘long weekend’:
  • Book hotel in [[Turkey]].
  • Order [[tea]].
  • Read [[El museo de la novela de la eterna]]
• [[97]]

• Most of what I write in the Agora nowadays seems to be [[poems]] :)
• Aside from that I’ve been mostly focusing on [[Agora development]] when I dedicate time to the #Agora directly.
• I have been enjoying the addition of AI to the developer’s toolset, have been going through bug fixes and old wishlist items with much more speed. I am thankful for the opportunity.
• In other news I am happy with [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]] and life in general!
• I have also been dedicating a large amount of time to work and trying to enjoy it, to more success than before.

• Go go
  • Go beyond
  • Everybody gone to the other shore
• Go free
  • Go kindly
  • If you have to #go, [[go kindly]]!

• Life is beautiful.
  • I am sorry for the oppressed at the same time I cherish highly my level of privilege and enjoyment; this much is true. What I do for them is probably inefficient and insufficient; I will try to do better.

As I write this on [[2025-09-27]] I am surrounded by happiness in the company of [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]]. I am deeply thankful for what I get to live.

After work I usually code until late, with two AIs in two computers in two different desks, and play around the house with ~5 other computers and conscious beings.

• Had a beautiful weekend with [[KM]]!
• Went to [[PDL]]‘s and [[Sabi]]‘s birthday by the lake yesterday.
• [[Flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[John Wilkins]] sounds like [[John Forkings]] in Russian.
  • [[The Door Game]].

2025-09-16

• [[Notes on how I use org-mode for work and life]]

• [[KM]] :)
• Then work, which was fine.
• Then [[Fellowship of the Link]].
  • With [[Shawn Murphy]]!

• Been doing a lot of AI-assisted coding at work and after work and it’s been great!
  • Even current-day AI adds a lot of value for coders. Like: a lot.

• Noding from work :)
• I spent the last few days:
  • With my mum, enjoying her last days in Zürich this year.
  • With [[KM]], in [[Copenhagen]] for the first time — it was great!
  • Working, mostly catching up with procedural things but also doing some AI stuff.
  • Playing (after work), mostly coding the Agora with AI. It’s a wonderful experience!

• Oh wow.
• What’s been happening.
• It’s quite something.

I love you, my friend! You reader. I know you will be here eventually, and I thank you for your attention and for the way you are.

• Had a great weekend with my mum and [[KM]] :)
• Missing [[Lady Burup]]! We will reunite tonight.
• Feeling quite productive at work, partly because of using AI and partly because of having handed off enough "legacy" state/projects to be able to focus on new things.

• I’m back!
  • Says the guy who’s back all the time :)
  • I went to anagora.org/journals again today and it made me so happy, I love seeing the writing of others here in the Agora!
• Hmm, nvim is broken in [[guanyin]] somehow…
  • [[Sidequest]]?
    • I asked chatgpt 5 to try something new and it troubleshooted the issue for me and told me to add something to my init.lua but it hasn’t worked so far.
    • Done :)
• So anyway…?
  • [[KM]] :)
  • [[EC]] :)
  • [[Burup]]:
    • mi [[Lady Burup]]!
    • clean the toilet
  • [[Agora]]:
    • thought about journals (see above)
    • thought of themes, see [[creme brulee]] and [[creme brulette]]
    • coding
    • autopull full text search and see what happens? (tm) — found an interesting empty node that had text mentions but no noding, and the Agora was much more interesting after expanding it
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • [[The revolution for the benefit of sentient beings]]

• [[km]] :)

• Back noding in this computer, let’s see if it’s still syncing :)
  • Hmm, this nvim doesn’t seem to be at target state :) Trying to fix now.
  • Well, that wasn’t it, chezmoi says no updates but somehow outline (bulletpoints) mode isn’t working as I expect it :(

2025-08-03

• [[Tweaks to org-agenda on mobile to save space]].

• #push [[Ekumen]]
  • [[Ekumen]] with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] :D
  • [[Interacción Humana]]
  • [[Sutty]]
    • [[Economía Cooperativa]]
    • [[Proceso Generativo]]
      • a lo largo de (por defecto) 4 sesiones
    • [[Iteraciones]]
  • [[Fediverso]]
  • [[beeper]]
  • [[next actions]]:
    • Tell Dan and Melissa?
      • CoSocial.ca + Social.coop "base case"?
    • Llenar el cuestionario :)
      • Compartir tesis
    • Repositorio de git :)
      • Para el ágora! Y la tesis?
    • -> Christopher Alexander y la gobernancia de AIs
• [[KM]] :D
• [[ekumen org]]
  • We also had fun generating AI videos! Some of them were actually quite eerie, but somehow funny, so they worked. I’m making them with [[Veo 3]]. The fact that they come with generated audio is quite something.

2025-08-01

• I currently can’t access [[Emacs Wiki]].
  • This looks like why: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m2lzkr/emacswiki_down/

• a [[document]]
  • About [[Agora Server]] and the wider [[Agora]] project:
  • #go https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQdPNfNsgnMSpbZ_J1gJQqQ5Fo44JtiQPDrDnZ7x7hA/edit?tab=t.0 pull
• [[beethoven]]
• Beautiful [[Las Jaras]] of July (month 7 / [[Avalokiteshvara]]) despite being sick with a fever. Thank you all, my friends and loved ones! And the [[universe]]!
• I did AI coding (meaning coding in tandem with Gemini 2.5) both at work and for the Agora/Flancia. I quite enjoy it!
• Bought [[tickets]] for my mum :)
  • And some [[gifts]]! :D
• [[KM]] is beautiful
• Sad about [[AI]] (not Artificial Intelligence in this case) but respectful/mindful, and thankful as well
  • Just closed a tab about [[Bursa]] and other places in [[Turkey]]

• Had a very nice start of the day with my mum and Burup.
  • Then very nice lunch with [[KM]]!
  • Then idem conversation with [[TW]]
    • He told me to look up [[positional embeddings]] as they are key to understanding how attention works in practice

• Back home on my free day :) I took the day off to do something with my mum off-peak (meaning not in the weekend). We were going to go to the [[St Beatus Caves]] but due to the weather we changed plans as she wants to go to [[Ikea]] ([[KM]] called it the artificial cave and it’s very fitting!).
• I’m typing this on my new small [[RK61]] keyboard and I quite like it! It is a very limited layout as it’s only 61 keys, so maybe not ideal for some use cases, but definitely good enough for doing general purpose writing.
• [[KM]] :)
• [[burup forever]]

2025-07-17

• A partially corrupted Metabase database. Dangit.

• I met [[KM]] this week and it was wonderful!
• The reference Agora at anagora.org is partly broken and the server it mostly depends on nowadays might be on the way out so further downtime could be expected, I’ll be noding about troubleshooting activities here and posting to https://social.coop/@flancian/114865307000829931. Please excuse any disruption!

2025-07-16

• [[Emacs]]:
  • Useful when searching: rgrep.
    • I have a bunch of files named the same, of regular meetings I have with the same person on different dates.
      • i.e. something like ‘Catchup with Shevek yyyy-mm-dd’, with corresponding file names catchup-with-shevek-2025-07-16.org.
    • I wanted to search for a specific term, but only from meetings with Shevek.
    • M-x rgrep, then search term when prompted, then catchup-with-shevek*.org for the file pattern when prompted.

• Mi mamá tose mucho mientras duerme :(
  • Espero que se le pase pronto!
  • En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
• I am now writing in [[tara]], the "main" project computer as of now :)
  • I have just [[meditated]].
  • I am thankful for existence!
  • I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
• Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don’t quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let’s see…
  • (These are the sidequests that make up so much of life… I try to enjoy them!)
  • I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
    • It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
      • (See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines… I’m rolling with it for now…)
        • (OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]…)
  • Hmm
    • Yep, it’s fixed in Tara!
    • How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
    • Now to figure out why it’s broken elsewhere \o/
    • Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn’t actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
    • Fixed then! :D

• Back here after a long while!
• I spent ten days with my mum in [[Calp]], [[Spain]] — I expected to write and code a lot, as I usually do (expect, not do, during holidays). In the end we mostly spent time in the sea or the pool, spoke, read and played [[Rummy]]. I have no regrets!
• As I write this, we are in the [[Alicante]] airport waiting for our flight. I am looking forward to being reunited with [[Lady Burup]]!

2025-07-05

• I was getting this error:
  • Before-save hook error: (wrong-type-argument org-roam-node nil)
  • Narrowed it down to when orgrr adds a #+zettel property to the file, it does it before all other properties, and org-roam doesn’t seem to like that.
• I like the look of Jeff Brown’s [[skg]] (Share Knowledge Graphs) project.
  • I haven’t clocked all the details, but a high level it has [[Agora]], [[FedWiki]] etc vibes.
  • Some discussion here.

2025-07-04

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • [[Strike Debt]] campaign. [[Rolling Jubilee]].
• Private AI companies profiting off the back of public infrastructure and the commons with no return is not surprising.
  • Exploiting commonly owned resources for personal gain is what capitalists have done throughout history.
• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Atmospheric Colonisation and Ecological Imperialism in the World System
  • Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry
  • Tell the EU: Keep AI within Planetary Boundaries - Green Web Foundation
  • Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • In Search of a Democratic Eco-Socialist Politics | SpringerLink
  • Why should the US decide who can have certain tech?
  • Alien | Typeset In The Future
  • A Sense of Rebellion
  • Excellent! Denmark Set to Replace Microsoft Office with Open Source Alternative
  • Wow! German State Ditches Microsoft for Open-Source Software

2025-07-03

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].

  • Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger referenced favourably.
  • Debt is one of the key drivers of individualisation.
  • Anti-debt movements, cancellation of student debt, credit card debt.

• [[#ACFM]] is consistently excellent.

2025-06-30

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • To become an indebted person under advanced capitalism is to lose the ability to act collectively with others for democratic goals.
  • Student debt changed the logic of education from something communistic to something mercenary and transactional.

2025-06-29

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]].
  • [[Debt: The First 5,000 Years]] by [[David Graeber]].
  • [[Everyday communism]]. Sociality.
  • Very little in everyday life operates like a market.
  • Even the internals of corporations don’t operate like markets.

• [[17]]
• [[53]]
• [[67]]
• [[2063]]
• [[7]]
• [[Höllgrotten]] today with my mum, it was lovely!
• I also cleaned the house, did some light project work, and enjoyed into the evening.

2025-06-28

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]]

2025-06-25

• Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
  • Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
  • This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
  • The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.

2025-06-24

• Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.

• The weekend was chill and great!
  • Mostly spent time with my mum who is visiting and Lady Burup.
  • We went to the river on Sunday as it was very warm (with my mum, not Lady Burup). It was very beautiful.
• I am talking to someone very interesting and that makes my whole life a bit better as well.

2025-06-23

• Watched: [[The AI Crisis We’re Ignoring]]
  • Seems pretty well-researched. I like this guy’s videos in general - he’s an ecosocialist.

2025-06-22

• First jog with the buggy. Not an unqualified success, but good to have done it.

  • It’s really hard to steer in jogging mode. Like playing as Bowser after getting used to Toad.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • People vs. Big Tech
    • tags: [[Big Tech]].

• Happy!

2025-06-20

• [[Nobody asked the world if it wanted AI]].

• I’m enjoying using [[orgrr]] for adding [[Folgezettel]] ids to (main) notes.

  • For exactly the reasons outlined by [[Bob Doto]] in [[A System for Writing]] (i.e. [[Folgezettel makes you consider your new notes more carefully]]).
  • I wish I could use some of orgrr’s other features, but I think they are mostly predicated on the existence of file links rather than id links.

• [[org-node]] looks neat and an improvement over org-roam in many ways.

  • I haven’t tried it though, as the feature list described ‘separate note piles’ as a won’t fix.
  • Assuming ‘separate note piles’ means different knowledge bases for different purposes, which I guess it does, then I rely on separate note piles quite heavily.
  • But then - things like this: https://github.com/meedstrom/org-node/issues/92 and this https://github.com/meedstrom/org-mem/blob/cf3ae8a90d11381910530a7d7ef00883d6b20850/org-mem.el#L85 make it look possible?

2025-06-19

• [[AI companies broke the labour market]].
• [[AI companies should bear responsibility for the repercussions of their products]].

• And I’m back!
  • Says the person who keeps going away :)
  • But I come back happily.
• Some days I dedicate very few cycles to the [[Agora]]. Instead I tend to focus on: work, family, friends and thoughts.
  • That’s alright! Or more than alright actually.
• To the [[readers of the future]] I say:
  • Thank you for being here!
  • Please excuse any bumps in the ride :)

As I we pass mid-June I am:

• Thinking of the women in my life
• Enjoying the visit of my mum!
• Enjoying life in general.

I now intend to:

• Take out the remaining paper for recycling.
• Fix Agora bugs!
  • Marginalia -> Google as the marginalia.nu iframe has issues
  • Maybe a [[scroll to bottom]] button, keep it simple :)

2025-06-16

• I should read more about [[Permacomputing]].

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert’s writings
    • tags: [[Libre software]]. [[Big Tech]].

2025-06-15

• [[Listened]]: [[ACFM 51: Heroes]]
  • Great as always.
  • Heroes. [[Heroism]].
  • The problems with [[Hero’s Journey]]. [[Jordan Petersen]].
  • Masculine and feminine heroism.
  • [[Che Guevara]] vs [[Subcomandante Marcos]] as heroes.
  • Cowards and traitors.

2025-06-14

2025-06-13

• I’ve been naughty and haven’t upgraded to a new major version of Linux Mint for a while.
  • I’m on 20.3. Support expired April 2025. Latest version is 22.
  • Apparently you can’t go directly between the 2.
  • You need to go 20.3 -> 21, 21 -> 21.3, 21.3 -> 22.
  • Yeesh. I can imagine this being quite a faff.
  • [[Upgrading Linux Mint 20.3 to 22]].

• I met [[P]] when I was in California, it was great!
  • We shook hands on friendship and I’ll mean that forever.
  • We might also not talk more any further and that is also OK. I am grateful for having met her.
  • I wish you the best! That goes for [[P]] and for you, reader:
    • May you be free!
    • May you be happy!
• I met [[Teodora]] today through my great friend [[Pesho]], it was also great!
  • We walked home (we live in the same town) taking [[Covid]] precautions because I was to an outdoor party where the host tested positive.
• It was [[AG]]‘s birthday and I loved it!
  • It was great seeing her after the long trip.
  • And meeting her friends and family again!